Not surprised it was a chinese woman... Just saying from experience...

Woman, 78, arrested after three people killed in SF West Portal crash

By Amy Graff

A woman was arrested Sunday on suspicion of killing three people, including a child, after she allegedly drove her SUV into a bus shelter in San Francisco’s West Portal neighborhood, local officials said.

Mary Fong Lau, 78, could face three felony counts of vehicle manslaughter and one felony count of causing bodily injury due to reckless driving, as well as several misdemeanor traffic violations, Robert Rueca, a spokesperson for the San Francisco Police Department, told SFGATE in an email on Monday morning.  

The traffic violations include driving at an unsafe speed and driving the wrong way on a divided road, according to jail records. Lau remained in custody without bail on Monday.

The fatal solo car crash occurred just after noon on Saturday. Lau was allegedly behind the wheel of a Mercedes SUV, traveling east on Ulloa Street, when she drove onto the sidewalk and smashed into the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency bus stop at the intersection of Ulloa and Lennox, police said. An adult and a child died at the scene and three people were injured, officials said. SFPD said Sunday afternoon that one of the people who was injured, a woman, had died; an infant remained hospitalized.

San Francisco District Attorney Brook Jenkins said in an emailed statement Monday afternoon that the investigation is "only in its very beginning stages."

"The police had probable cause to arrest Mary Fong Lau based on the preliminary evidence gathered to date," Jenkins said. "My office is now in the process of receiving case information and evidence from the police department."   

The investigation will include Lau's toxicology report, which could take 30 days to complete, and analysis of Lau's vehicle to "determine whether mechanical issues may have played a role," the DA said.

 

"While I understand that there is an immediate desire to know what ultimately will happen in this case, I ask for patience from the public as investigators continue to gather more information so that my office can make appropriate charging decisions," Jenkins said. 

The deceased and injured individuals were a family — a mother, a father and their child and infant baby — taking the bus to the zoo, according to a report from KPIX-TV. Only the infant survived.